2. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved

3. Round 1Round 2 Final Jeopardy

4. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Political Geography Physical Geography Vocab Terms Major Countries Arab- Israeli Conflict Luck of the Draw $200 $400 $600 $800 $1000 Round 1 Final Jeopardy Scores

5. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The Kurds and Palestinians have this major attribute in common (other than their religion)

6. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is that they are both stateless nations? Scores

7. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The northern-most country in Southwest Asia and the region’s largest economy, it has a large population of fundamentalist Kurds that have been known to engage in guerrilla warfare tactics.

8. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Turkey? Scores

9. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 This Mediterranean nation has long been at odds with U.S. policy, is involved in a civil war, is still officially at war with its neighbor (Israel) and is home to the world’s oldest city, Damascus.

10. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Syria? Scores

11. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 One who is without a homeland.

12. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is a refugee? Scores

13. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 This politically controversial area on the Mediterranean Coast of “The Promised Land” (not the Promised Land itself) is a sore subject for both Jews and Arabs.

14. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is Gaza (Strip)? Scores

15. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The sea separating Egypt and Asia, where Moses crossed unconventionally.

16. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the Red Sea? Scores

17. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved

18. $400 The coast around this body of water is rich with oil deposits, as evidenced by the wealth of the coastal countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.

19. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Persian Gulf? Scores

20. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 Mesopotamia nestled itself between these two rivers. Mesopotamia nestled itself between these two rivers.

21. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What are the Tigris and Euphrates? Scores

22. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The man-made feature in Egypt that allows for sea travel from the Mediterranean out to the Indian Ocean.

23. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is the Suez Canal? Scores

24. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Named after the largest city in Yemen, this body of water connects the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea.

25. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is the Gulf of Aden? Scores

26. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 A country’s basic support facilities, such as roads, schools, airports, and communication systems.

27. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is infrastructure? Scores

28. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The widespread migration of Jews after being expelled from their homeland nearly 2000 years ago.

29. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the diaspora? Scores

30. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 The dry, worthless land in the majority of central Iran that is virtually uninhabitable because the winds evaporate most of the moisture from the soil.

31. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What are salt flats (or mud flats)? Scores

32. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The traditional name of the country of Iran, used worldwide until well into the 20th century.

33. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is Persia? Scores

34. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 A major reason not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities is their ability to retaliate by mining this small strip of water that connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and where 45% of the world’s oil flows through.

35. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is the Straight of Hormuz? Scores

36. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The primary difference between Iran and the rest of the Islamic Middle East is this.

37. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is that Iran is Shiite? Scores

38. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 One of the 2 major terrorist groups that Iran is reportedly financing.

39. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is Hamas or Hezbollah? Scores

40. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved

41. $600 Laws intended to give jobs to people of Saudi Arabia that were previously held by foreigners

42. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What are Saudization Laws? Scores

43. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The only North African country that does not encompass any part of the Sahara Desert.

44. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is Tunisia? Scores

45. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Iraq and this country serve as buffers between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

46. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is Kuwait? Scores

47. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The organization that officially partitioned the area known as Palestine into 2 separate nations, Israel and Palestine.

48. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the United Nations? Scores

49. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The Israeli occupied territory full of Palestinians that surrounds the holy city of Jerusalem.

50. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the West Bank? Scores

51. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 The original impetus for the creation of Israel, it was Theodore Herzl’s idea in 1896 – calling for the establishment of Jewish homeland in Israel (Palestine).

52. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Zionism? Scores

53. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 A region under foreign administration, such as the area of Palestine after World War I.

54. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is a mandate? Scores

55. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The British foreign secretary in 1917 that promised a homeland to Jews in Palestine.

56. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Who was Lord Balfour? Scores

57. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Oil was first discovered in this region in 1908 in the country now known as this.

58. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Iran? Scores

59. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This river, whose waters separate 2 countries, has no outlet to the sea, but does mingle with the waters of the salty lake known as the Dead Sea.

60. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Jordan River? Scores

61. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 This entity ruled over the area of Palestine for centuries; meanwhile, the French and British signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement dividing up the remnants of this former world power.

62. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What was the Ottoman Empire? Scores

63. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The historical event(s) responsible for Lebanon being 30% Christian.

64. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What were the Crusades? Scores

65. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The Arabic term for the vast desert on the Arabian Peninsula, called the “Empty Quarter” in English.

66. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is the Rub al-Khali? Scores

67. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Scores Black Gold Final Jeopary Question

68. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved Although the new-found oil wealth in the region has helped with modernization and infrastructure, it has also created this major xenophobic problem

69. © Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved What is the necessity of hiring “guest workers” from other countries to operate the businesses because of a lack of skilled/trained native laborers. Scores